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Literature thematic unit plans for SMART Notebook
Common Core Reading: The Cherokee Story of "The First Strawberries"
You will need SMART Notebook software to use this file. This SMART Board presentation is a week-long unit (4 days of activities) focusing on the Cherokee legend of the first strawberries. This unit focuses upon Joseph Bruchac's book, "The First Strawberries: A Cherokee Story." Common Core Standards addressed in this unit include: RL2.1, RL2.2, RL2.7, RL2.9. Students will also learn about choosing books: by a favorite author or by a purpose for reading. These slides can be printed and copied
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
Patricia Polacco Author Study : A Three Week Unit
This Smartboard unit focuses on Patricia Polacco, her life, and works. Books covered include "The Keeping Quilt," "Chicken Sunday," "My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother," "The Trees of the Dancing Goats," "Meteor!" and "Thank you Mr. Falker." Also included are lessons on cause and effect, story elements, inference, and author's purpose.
Through the unit, students keep up with a graphic organizer which describes the books they have read, so that comparing the stories is simple at the end of the un
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Grades:
3rd - 4th
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The Very Busy Spider Interactive Story Retell for the Smart Board
This is an interactive story retell for Eric Carle's story; "The Very Busy Spider." This retell is a common core aligned activity that includes a sound component for the characters in the story. This activity has engaging clipart that retells the story in sequential order on the Smart Board. The characters on the page will fade into the screen as the page is entered. This engaging activity will promote and enhance reading and comprehension skills. Clipart and fonts by:Doodle Frames, Ralph an
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PreK - 2nd, Staff
6th Grade Literature Unit 3: Heroes
In this 6th grade thematic literature unit, the Big Idea is "Heroes". All text selections (both fiction and nonfiction) will connect back to the theme and the Essential Questions. The unit will end with a culminating writing performance demonstration. The writing type is argument and the prompt is "In your opinion, what are the three most important qualities of a hero?" Students will be required to cite textual evidence to support the claim. I have included a link to a five-paragraph argument gr
Grades:
6th
Understanding Characters SmartBoard Unit Plan 3rd Grade Standards Aligned
This unit plan is meant to be taught throughout a week of instruction or at your own pace. It is aligned to teach students how to interpret and understand characters by what they say and do in a story.
It is filled with interactive lesson and activities.
The 20 page SmartBoard lesson was created using Smart Notebook. The pages are as follows:
1. Title page with lesson objections, "I can" statements, and lesson notes.
2. An interactive activity that opens the lesson; the hook.
3-5. Three pages
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
6th Grade Literature Unit 2: Fairness
In this Smartboard unit, the big idea is fairness. Each of the text selections will relate back to the theme of fairness and the essential questions. The text selections for this unit include: "Nadia the Willful" by Sue Alexander, "Sibling Face-Off" (a nonfiction article on readworks.org), "Eleven" by Sandra Cisneros, "Prince and the Pauper" dramatized by Joellen Bland, and "Women's Rights" a nonfiction article by Alice Boynton and Wiley Blevins (found in the Scholastic resource - Nonfiction Pas
Grades:
6th
6th Grade Unit 1: Relationships
The Big Idea for this unit is "Relationships". Selections come from McDougal Littel Literature, an article from read works.org, and the novel Freak the Mighty. The Smartboard lesson I created has links to Power Points and Smartboard lessons from either the web or presentations I created for different mini-lessons throughout the unit. Enjoy!
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6th
Common Core Reading "The Great Ball Game" CREEK Native American Unit
You will need SMART Notebook software to use this file. This week-long (4-day) Common Core Reading unit is centered around the text, "The Great Ball Game," by Joseph Bruchac. It is a Muskogee, or Creek, Tale. This text is fiction/literature and provides Social Studies connections for Native American units. There are 10 slides that lead you through reading and re-reading the book to gain more knowledge of vocabulary and details in the text. Be sure to check out my other Common Core Reading u
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Grades:
1st - 3rd
6th Grade Literature Unit 6: Acceptance
In this 6th grade thematic literature Smartboard unit, the Big Idea is "Acceptance". All text selections (both fiction and nonfiction) will connect back to the theme and the Essential Questions. The unit will end with a culminating writing performance demonstration. The writing type is informative/explanatory. The student will compare and contrast the Lin and the Gleason families from the Close Read selection "The All-American Slurp". The paper should include evidence of acceptance of the other'
Grades:
6th
6th Grade Literature Unit 5: Success
In this 6th grade thematic literature Smartboard unit, the Big Idea is "Success". All text selections (both fiction and nonfiction) will connect back to the theme and the Essential Questions. The unit will end with a culminating writing performance demonstration. The writing type is informative/explanatory. The student will create an informational flyer or one-pager that explains how a person can be successful. One required element of the writing will be a timeline with main ideas and supporting
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6th
Smartboard presentation Genre elements of Gothic Horror Romanticism
Smartboard presentation for Unit Plan Introduction to Gothic Literature This presentation covers the elements, their definitions with activities that help students identify and retain their meanings and significance in creating an atmosphere of mystery, horror and dread. Perfect for use as a prerequisite for the Unit plan for Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
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Grades:
8th - 12th
6th Grade Literature Unit 4: Responsibility
In this 6th grade thematic literature unit, the Big Idea is "Responsibility". All text selections (both fiction and nonfiction) will connect back to the theme and the Essential Questions. The unit will end with a culminating writing performance demonstration. The writing type is argument and the prompt is "In your opinion, do you think video games are harmful or helpful?" Students will be required to cite textual evidence to support the claim. I have included a link to a five-paragraph argument
Grades:
6th
Seedfolks Thematic Unit
I have spent a full summer working on this thematic unit and I’m excited to share it with you! Students typically would use a spiral notebook as their “journal” to use every day of the unit. It’s organized, engaging, and most of all, encourages students to think, discuss among their peers, and be creative while being critical thinkers!
Included in the thematic unit:
- Author review with videos (click on bottom left globe)
- Literature Circle directions
- Daily Journal Writing
- Daily Literature
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Grades:
4th - 8th
Bad Beginning Thematic Unit
I have spent a full summer working on this thematic unit and I’m excited to share it with you! Students typically would use a spiral notebook as their “journal” to use every day of the unit. It’s organized, engaging, and most of all, encourages students to think, discuss among their peers, and be creative while being critical thinkers!
Included in the thematic unit:
- Author review with videos (click on bottom left globe)
- Literature Circle directions
- Daily Journal Writing
- Daily Literature
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
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